Tuesday, August 11, 2009

莫拉克整體農損逾68億元 漁損創18年新高

(中央社記者楊淑閔台北11日電)農委會公布,莫拉克風災至上午10時累計造成農漁業產物損失及民間設施毀損估計新台幣68億5027萬元,高居18年來風災損失前5名;其中,漁產損失29億1116萬元,創下近18年新高。



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根據農委會民國80年來統計顯示,第一大風災農損(不含設施損失)是85年8月賀伯颱風180億7622.8萬元;第二大是94年7月海棠颱風77億 4237.2萬元。第三大為96年10月柯羅莎76億4258.6萬元。第四名為87年10月瑞伯風災,農損66億6967.1萬元。

莫拉克颱風造成農損至今已逾68億元,若扣除設施損失,為65億2021萬元,高居18年來風災農損前5名。

不過,莫拉克所造成漁產損失,已高於賀伯風災漁產損失24億3029.6萬元,創下18年新高。

農委會公布,莫拉克颱風整體農損中,「農作物損失」27億8878萬元,農作物被害面積4萬9723公頃,損害程度27%,換算無收穫面積1萬3312公頃,受損作物以香蕉倒伏最為嚴重,被害面積達5356公頃,次為木瓜、番石榴、竹筍、葉菜類水傷等。

「畜禽損失」7億3759萬元,主要為豬死亡8萬815頭、雞死亡270萬6000隻、鴨死亡70萬9000隻。

「漁產損失」29億1116萬元,養殖魚塭受損面積為5832公頃,以台南縣、屏東縣、台南市、高雄縣等縣市受損最為嚴重。

「林產損失」1636萬元。「農業設施損失」1億6832萬元,主要為雲嘉南及高屏地區蔬菜及木瓜網室設施受損。

「畜禽設施損失」1714萬元。「漁民設施損失」1億4460萬元。「農田損失部分」6632萬元,農田流失及埋沒73公頃。

日國債創新高 每人平均負債228萬台幣

(中央社記者張芳明東京11日專電)日本財務省發表的統計指出,到今年6月底為止,包括國債、借款和政府短期證券在內,日本的累積債務總額達到前所未有的860兆2557億日圓(新台幣291兆7200億元)。

統計指出,以7月1日估計的日本總人口1億2761萬計算的話,從嬰兒至高齡者,每名日本民眾的平均負債額約為674萬日圓(新台幣228萬5600元)。

財務省每一季發表國家累積的債務總額,6月底比3月底增加13兆7587億日圓,主要是由於政府為因應全球的不景氣而增加發行國債。

統計顯示,日本的國家債務以普通國債最多,占總額的6成4,金額為554兆4241億日圓,其次是財務投資債務,金額為127兆400億日圓,接下來是政府短期證券,金額119兆1062億日圓。

日本的國家債務過去最高紀錄是2008年3月底的849兆2396億日圓,隨後一度減少,但由於去年秋天爆發全球金融危機,政府為刺激景氣而追加預算增發國債,造成國債總額增加而創下新高。

財務省預估,若經濟情況未有好轉,政府繼續實施景氣對策,國家的累積債務總額將在明年3月底以前突破900兆日圓。

Strong quakes hit Japan and India

10-degree map showing recent earthquakes

10-degree map showing recent earthquakes

Legend with age and magnitude scale

Powerful quakes strike Japan, India

TOKYO — Powerful earthquakes just over 10 minutes apart rattled Japan and India on Tuesday, triggering panic on fears of a tsunami in the Andaman Islands and injuring more than 100 people southwest of Tokyo.

The unrelated quakes struck in the early hours, shutting down Japanese bullet train services and a nuclear power plant and causing a landslide that closed a major highway near the Japanese capital.

At least 110 people were injured, mostly by falling objects such as television sets, including three who were hospitalised in serious condition, prefectural government officials and police said.

The Japanese tremor registered a strong magnitude of 6.4, while the quake off the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean was a huge 7.6, according to the US Geological Survey.

Panic-stricken islanders fled their homes, fearing a repeat of the enormous Asian tsunami that devastated the Andamans in 2004 and killed around 220,000 people in the region as a whole.

"It was very frightening. Everything started shaking and people were running out of their homes," said Mrinal Sarkar, a villager in Diglipur in the northern Andamans. "People are afraid to go back inside."

But a tsunami alert issued for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh was later cancelled by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the US National Weather Service.

The emergency services control centre in Port Blair, the main town of the Andaman Islands, said there were no reports of casualties and property damage had been limited to cracks in some buildings on northern islands.

S.N. Jha, who heads the Andaman Islands' Disaster Management Committee, said emergency services had been put on alert across the territory within minutes of the earthquake being felt.

"In the end there was some panic in Northern Andaman, but there have been no reports of any serious damage to property or loss of life," Jha said.

The quake hit at 1:55 am (1955 GMT Monday) around 263 kilometres north of Port Blair, and was around 33 kilometres deep. Mild tremors were felt 1,190 kilometres away in the eastern Indian port city of Chennai.

The Japanese quake struck at 5:07 am (2007 GMT Monday) in Suruga Bay on the Pacific coast 170 kilometres southwest of Tokyo at a depth of 26.8 kilometres.

It shook buildings, threw objects from supermarket shelves, and jolted people from their sleep in Tokyo and areas southwest of the capital.

Japan's Meteorological Agency, which measured the quake at a revised 6.5, said there was no risk of a tsunami after initial waves raised the ocean surface by about 40 centimetres (16 inches) at Omaezaki, Shizuoka.

A large landslide triggered by the quake damaged a highway in the prefecture at Makinohara, causing long traffic jams.

Early warnings that the nearby Typhoon Etau could compound the damage by bringing heavy rains to the quake-hit region did not materialise when the typhoon veered east, heading away from the Japanese coast.

Torrential rains from the typhoon had earlier caused at least 13 deaths from flooding and landslides in western Japan.

The quake caused power failures in 9,500 households, utility officials said, while Central Japan Railway Co. suspended Shinkansen bullet trains in the quake-hit region before resuming the services several hours later.

Prime Minister Taro Aso's office set up an emergency centre shortly after the quake, which was followed by 13 noticeable aftershocks.

A strong earthquake had also hit central Japan late on Sunday. Around 20 percent of the world's most powerful quakes strike the country, which is located at the intersection of four tectonic plates.

The Andaman Sea area also witnesses frequent earthquakes caused by the meeting of the Indian plate with the Burmese microplate along an area known as the Andaman trench.


印度‧印度洋7.6級大地震‧多國恐慌發海嘯警報


(印度‧布萊爾港)印度洋安達曼島今日(週二,8月11日)發生7.6級大地震,一度觸發海嘯恐慌,當地居民紛紛逃離居所。

美國國家氣象服務局的太平洋海嘯警告中心隨後取消了在印度、緬甸、印尼、泰國、孟加拉發出的海嘯警報。

當局指出:“海平面數據顯示,不會發生大海嘯。”

不過,海嘯警告最初發出後,多國沿海地區的不少民眾都驚惶疏散。

未接損毀報告

安達曼島主要市鎮布萊爾港的警察管制中心指出,暫未接獲嚴重損毀以及傷亡報告。

地震於當地時間凌晨1時55分(大馬時間週二凌晨3時55分),發生在布萊爾港以北263公里,深度達33公里。

安達曼島在2004年的亞洲大海嘯事件中受嚴重創擊。當時,印尼蘇門達臘島外發生地震,引發海嘯,巨浪衝擊印度洋附近國家。

安達曼迪格里普爾村村民撒卡爾表示:“非常害怕。所有東西開始晃動,人們逃離房屋,不敢回到屋內。”

距離安達曼1190公里外的真奈也出現微震。此外,印尼巴布亞北部沿海也在凌晨1時46分發生5.7級地震。

印度國家海嘯警告中心指出,海平面無顯示異常洶湧。一切正常。

地震地點去年風災逾13萬人死

此次地震震央位於緬甸伊拉瓦底三角洲西南部約364公里。當地去年5月發生嚴重風災,造成逾13萬8000人死亡。

在2004年海嘯事件後成立的泰國國家災難警告中心表示,當局也正在監視地震情況。

2004年的大海嘯造成22萬人死亡,多數罹難者來自印尼北部的亞齊省。斯里蘭卡、緬甸、泰國以及印度也有數千人死亡。


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CCTV cameras captured the moment the quake struck

A strong earthquake has struck Tokyo and central Japan, halting train services, closing motorways and causing a nuclear power station to shut down.

At least 43 people were injured by the magnitude 6.4 quake, many of them by falling objects, officials said. No deaths have been reported.

Separately, there was another powerful earthquake off India's Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.

Both earthquakes triggered tsunami alerts, which were later cancelled.

'Huge tremble'

In Japan, the magnitude 6.4 quake shook buildings, threw objects from shelves and jolted people from their sleep in Tokyo area at 0507 (2007 GMT Monday).

The quake was centred in the Pacific Ocean, about 170km (105 miles) south-west of Tokyo, the US Geological Survey reported.

Of those injured, at least three people are thought to be in a serious condition.

"It was a huge tremble, like nothing I had experienced before," said Tadao Negami, a 69-year-old resident of Mishima city in Shizuoka.

Control room of the Japan Meteorological Agency.
Japan's seismologists are constantly waiting for the big one

"I couldn't stay seated on a chair. My daughter and my grandchildren were scared and surprised and they rushed downstairs," AFP news agency quoted him as saying.

A large landslide triggered by the quake damaged a highway at Makinohara, Shizuoka, causing long traffic jams, television footage showed.

The Hamaoka nuclear plant in Shizuoka immediately shut down two reactors after the quake, and the Shinkansen bullet train service was briefly suspended.

'Big one' expected

While officials said there was no risk of a tsunami in Japan, another earthquake in India's Andaman Islands, prompted tsunami warnings there.

The US Geological Survey said the quake - unrelated to Japan's - with a 7.6 magnitude hit the Indian Ocean about 257km (160 miles) north of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands.

A tsunami watch called for India, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh was later lifted without any tsunami being recorded.

An earlier earthquake of magnitude 6.9 hit Japan on Sunday, but caused no damage or casualties.

Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries, and experts believe Tokyo has a 90% chance of being hit by a major quake over the next 50 years.